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On Friday 08 October 2004 5:45 pm, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> Thus spake Luke-Jr on Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:10:32PM CDT |
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> > On Friday 08 October 2004 4:59 pm, Ettore Salvi wrote: |
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> > > Hi everybody: |
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> > > I'm installing Gentoo on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite A30 ). |
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> > > For XFree86Config |
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> > Your first mistake is using XFree. Most of the Linux world (incl Gentoo) |
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> > are using X.org now. |
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> This is news to me, although I note, now that you mention it, that there's |
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> an xorg-x11 ebuild in Gentoo (blocked by XFree). When I installed Gentoo |
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> on my desktop box a year ago or so, I believe that Xfree was recommended. |
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I'm not sure X.org *existed* a year ago... it certainly wasn't as popular as |
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it is now. |
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> A few questions: |
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> What are the advantages of X.org over XFree? |
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Updates, transparency, Damage extention (fast VNC), newer video drivers, |
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etc... |
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Note that XFree will not be updated in Gentoo and may even be removed in the |
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future. |
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> If I have XFree successfully installed and running, are there any |
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> advantages to switching? |
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See above :) |
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> Do 3rd party vendors, notably VMWare which I think supplies an optimized |
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> XFree driver, support X.org? |
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No clue. |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Utopios |
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http://utopios.org/ |
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